faith comes from another Latin verb, fidere, and has spun off its own set of English words including fidelity, confidence, and fiduciary. The underlying notion is trust. But again, as with creeds, moderns suspect that faith is dangerous because in their minds it is blind. For them, seeing is believing; they want hard facts backed up with plenty of evidence. The world is full of mists; people want to know, not trust. But is faith blind? The Hebrew word for “faith” means firm or solid, like solid ground.